Thank you so much Todd. I will try and test your suggestion.
On Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 7:22:40 AM UTC-5 Todd Lewis wrote:
> You need to make your fuser_dirname variable change as you loop over your
> car models.
> Then you need to make your tasks loop over the car models.
>
> - name: Create and copy folder
> hosts: all
> become_user: fuser
>
> vars_files:
> - /ansible_scripts/vars/vars_carmodel_file.yml
>
> vars:
> fuser_dirname: "*{{ item }}-sample-dir*"
>
> tasks:
> - name: Create sample directories in /home/mule
> ansible.builtin.file:
> path: "/home/mule/{{ fuser_dirname }}"
> mode: "0755"
> state: directory
> *loop: "{{ car_dirname }}"*
>
> - name: Copy /home/fuser directories to /apps
> ansible.builtin.copy:
> src: "/home/fuser/{{ fuser_dirname }}/"
> dest: "/apps/{{ fuser_dirname }}"
> *loop: "{{ car_dirname }}"*
>
> But there's lots of other questionable stuff going on here. The first task
> is working in the target hosts /home/mule directory, but the second task
> is copying directories from the ansible controller's /home/fuser tree to
> the target hosts without specifying group, owner, or mode.
>
> Anyway, this is one answer to how to deal with the looping. You'll need to
> work out these other details, though, before you have a useful process.
>
> Also, use ansible-lint on your code.
>
>
> On 5/30/24 4:15 PM, wpgpo...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hello Group,
>
> Requesting for any help and guidance on how I can able to use the variable
> within the variables.
>
> I have the variable (fuser_dirname) that I'd usually used as the main
> variable in my playbook. However, I'd just need to have another variable
> with the list of the car name to make it as directory name.
>
> This maybe similar to the bash script where I will cat the variable file
> then use the 'for' loop command.
>
> Was wondering if anyone may have some idea on how to work this in just
> playbook module and script.
>
> Below are the command, expected result, variable, and playbook files.
>
> Command
> ansible-playbook /ansible_scripts/playbooks/testtemp/for_test_only.yml
> --limit fuser_hostname
>
> Result
> fuserATawscar001:/apps> ls -l
> drwxr-xr-x 3 fuser fuser 33 May 30 08:40 honda-sample-dir/
> drwxr-xr-x 3 fuser fuser 33 May 30 08:40 tesla-sample-dir/
> drwxr-xr-x 3 fuser fuser 33 May 30 08:40 tesla-sample-dir/
>
> Variable File
> /ansible_scripts/vars/vars_carmodel_file.yml
> car_dirname:
> - honda
> - toyota
> - tesla
>
> Playbook File
> - name: Create and copy folder
> hosts: all
> become_user: fuser
> vars_files:
> - /ansible_scripts/vars/vars_carmodel_file.yml
> vars:
> fuser_dirname: (( fuser_folder ))-sample-dir
>
> tasks:
> - name: create
> file:
> path: "/home/mule/{{ fuser_dirname }}"
> mode: 0755
> state: directory
> - name: copy
> copy:
> src: "/home/fuser/{{ fuser_dirname }}/"
> dest: "/apps/{{ fuser_dirname }}"
>
>
> Any help and guidance are much appreciated.
>
>
> Thank you so much in advance.
>
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